different between xiphias vs dorado

English

Etymology

From Latin xiphi?s.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?z?f??s/

Noun

xiphias

1. A swordfish.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:

     Huge Ziffius, whom Mariners eschew / No lesse, then rockes, as travellers informe […]

   • 1700, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol 3, p. 38:

     S. Malpighi having dissected the Head of a Xiphias or Sword Fish, which hath a very big Eye, observ'd that the middle of the Optick Nerve is nothing else, but a large Membrane, folded according to its length in many Doubles almost like a Fan, and invested by the Dura Mater.

   • 1857, Bostock & Riley, trans. Pliny, Natural History, 32.vi:

     Trebius Niger informs us that […] the xiphias, or, in other words, the sword-fish, has a sharp-pointed muzzle, with which it is able to pierce the sides of a ship and send it to the bottom […]

   • 1863, Prof. Huxley, "Structure and development of the vertebrate skeleton", The Lancet, 23 May 1863:

     In the xiphias, you observe, the enormous elongation of the head is produced by the elongation of the jaws proper – that is to say, of the pre-maxilla and nasal bones.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (xiphías), derived from ????? (xíphos, “sword”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ksi.p?i.a?s/, [?ks??p?iä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ksi.fi.as/, [?ksi?fi?s]

Noun

xiphi?s m (genitive xiphiae); first declension

1. a swordfish, Xiphias gladius
2. a sword-shaped comet

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -?s).

Synonyms

• (swordfish): gladius

Related terms

• xiphion

Descendants

• Translingual: Xiphias

References

• xiphias in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• xiphias in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• xiphias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Spanish dorado, from the verb dorar (“gild, give a golden color”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??r??d??/

Noun

dorado (plural dorados)

1. Coryphaena hippurus, the mahi-mahi or dolphin, a species of fish with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.

Synonyms

• dolphin, dolphinfish, mahi-mahi

Translations

Anagrams

• Darood

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: do?ra?do

Noun

dorado

1. any of several fishes
   1. the mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus)
   2. the greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili)
   3. the blackbanded trevally (Seriolina nigrofasciata)
   4. any of the four recognized species of the genus Scomberoides
      1. the needle-scaled queenfish (Scomberoides tol)
      2. the barred queenfish (Scomberoides tala)
      3. the doublespotted queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
      4. the talang queenfish (Scomberoides commersonnianus)

Adjective

dorado

1. plated; covered with plating, especially gold

Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Spanish dorado.

Adjective

dorádo

1. gold, golden

Noun

dorádo

1. gilt
2. gold

Spanish

Etymology

From the verb dorar (“gild, give a golden color”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??ado/, [d?o??a.ð?o]

Adjective

dorado (feminine dorada, masculine plural dorados, feminine plural doradas)

1. golden

Derived terms

Noun

dorado m (plural dorados)

1. various species of golden-colored fish (though not usually the pet goldfish)
2. plating with gold

Descendants

• ? English: dorado

Verb

dorado m (feminine singular dorada, masculine plural dorados, feminine plural doradas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of dorar.